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16 June 2013 12:45 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Man of Steel was one of the most-anticipated movie events of the year, and from a box office perspective it did not disappoint.Through Sunday, Man of Steel earned a fantastic $128.6 million*$116.6 million during the traditional Friday-to-Sunday period, and another $12 million from Thursday night group sales. That's the second-best opening of 2013 so far behind Iron Man 3, and it's a new record for highest opening ever in June ahead of Toy Story 3 ($110.3 million). The official three-day figure of $116.6 million ranks second all-time among non-sequels behind The Hunger Games. Man of Steel also performed well compared to 2006's Superman Returns. That movie opened on a Wednesday and earned $84.6 million through its first five days. Adjusting for ticket price inflation, that would come out to $102.5 million, or noticeably lower than Man of Steel's $128.6 million haul so far.In need of a major franchise to fill the void left by Harry Potter and The Dark Knight, »
- Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
10 June 2013 3:11 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
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In an outrageous send-up of the Paranormal Activity movies, The Devil Inside and other “found footage” movies, A Haunted House features young couple Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins), who have just moved in to their dream house. As they settle in, they quickly find they’re not alone. But it’s not the house that’s haunted, it’s Malcolm’s girlfriend who is possessed by a demon. Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern-day ghostbusters to rid her of this unwelcome intruder, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his relationship… »
- David Agnew
10 June 2013 8:34 AM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Given the choice between two dystopias—one an annual day of lawless, cathartic bloodletting; the other a world where middle-aged men are stricken with strangely selective amnesia about the past two decades of pop culture—Americans opted for The Purge over The Internship. The Ethan Hawke-starring thriller debuted at No. 1 with $36.4 million, a record haul for an R-rated horror movie, which only gets less impressive once you consider that the former champ was The Devil Inside. With The Purge earning similarly mediocre reviews from critics and audiences alike, you can probably expect it to drop precipitously in »
9 June 2013 4:22 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Opinions on The Purge may be greatly mixed, but audiences flocked in droves to see the futuristic home invasion flick this weekend, making it a surprise, overperforming #1, even making back ten times its budget and setting a new horror movie record in the process.
Box Office Mojo confirms James DeMonaco’s The Purge just became the little movie that could. Budgeted at $3 million, the film grossed $36.3 million this weekend, leaving the competition so much in the dust I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are already pitching the studios a new comedy that casts them as bumbling slackers that hunt people for sport in a world gone mad.
That $36 million opening also helped set a record, trumping The Devil Inside’s $30 million debut for the mantle of highest opening original R-rated horror movie.
Plans for a sequel to the high-concept sci-fi home invasion horror from Universal, »
- Foywonder
9 June 2013 2:30 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Thanks to a clever, well-executed marketing effort, micro-budget horror movie The Purge easily took first place this weekend ahead of higher-profile Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy The Internship. Meanwhile, Fast & Furious 6 and Star Trek Into Darkness became the latest Summer 2013 movies to pass $200 million at the domestic box office.Produced for just $3 million, The Purge debuted to a fantastic $36.4 million. That's a record for original R-rated horror ahead of last year's The Devil Inside ($33.7 million), which is particularly impressive considering the movie didn't have a supernatural angle. The Purge's opening was also twice as much as producer Jason Blum and star Ethan Hawke's Sinister, which started off with $18 million last October.Going in to the weekend, it looked like the best comparable title was The Strangers ($21 million), which opened around the same time in 2008 and also centered around a home invasion. The fact that The Purge wound up »
- Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
7 June 2013 1:50 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly.
Cast: Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, David Jensen, Tarra Riggs, Louis Herthum, Muse Watson, Erica Michelle, Sharice A. Williams, Boyana Balta.
Running time: 88 minutes.
Certificate: 15.
Synopsis: After the events of the first film, Nell Sweetzer is found alive and taken to a psychiatric care home to help her deal with her post traumatic stress. But how much does she remember? And is the demon Abalam still looking for her?
The Last Exorcism should be remembered as an awesome found footage exorcism film as opposed to the poorly constructed and non-thrilling The Devil Inside. It did everything right, including giving us a fantastic protagonist that we grew to care about as he battled with his faith and the horror that gradually crept its way into the narrative. With its great use of the found footage format, it was a huge surprise and one that was highly deserving of a sequel. »
- Luke Ryan Baldock
6 June 2013 4:15 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly; Screenwriter Damien Chazelle, Ed Gass-Donnelly; Starring: Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark; Running time: 88 mins; Certificate: 15
Abandoning the found footage trope failed to work for horror sequel Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, nor does it pay dividends for the similarly dire The Last Exorcism 2. In place of the shaky camera emerges a very wobbly plot that leaves nobody trembling, an awkward regurgitation of cheap and overused shock tactics that flails its contorted limbs in search of a genuine scare to grab hold of.
2010's The Last Exorcism managed to muster a reasonable degree of interest through the strength of its lead character Reverend Cotton Marcus, a captivating yet phoney exorcist who stumbles across the real thing. The teenage subject of the possession, Ashley Bell's country girl Nell, is the focus of a sequel which tracks her placement in a New Orleans foster home »
4 June 2013 3:47 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With religion in decline, why does our fascination with fiends and possession persist? Perhaps its a kind of therapeutic release
As their chosen title suggests, the makers of The Last Exorcism didn't expect it to beget a sequel. However, their $1.8m found-footage cheapie ended up taking $68m at the box office, so understandably enough, this week they're bringing us The Last Exorcism Part II. Perhaps they should have been more confident about their first effort's prospects: filmgoers have a proven taste for demonic expulsion.
The Exorcist regularly tops lists of the scariest-ever films. A decline in religiosity since its 1973 release might have been expected to curb the appeal of its subject matter, but recent years have spawned The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Constantine, Exorcist: The Beginning, Stigmata, The Devil Inside, Season of the Witch, The Possession, The Unborn, Paranormal Activity 2 and The Rite. Several of these efforts displeased critics, »
- David Cox
28 May 2013 4:03 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Creating a new, unique take on the found footage horror subgenre has become increasingly difficult in recent years. For every successful and clever Paranormal Activity, there’s an equally unimaginative counterpart, like The Devil Inside. Sequels in the genre, such as the Paranormal Activity follow-ups, in particular haven’t fared as well with critics and audiences, as the storylines and visuals seem to become repetitive and uninspired. But the new horror thriller, V/H/S/2, has actually earned higher praise than its predecessor, last year’s horror film V/H/S, in part to its cunning visuals and more cohesive storyline.
V/H/S/2 follows two private investigators as they break into a missing college student’s abandoned house, after being hired by his concerned mother. But instead of finding him, they instead find his large collection of mysterious VHS tapes. While viewing the contents of four of the videos, »
- Karen Benardello
25 May 2013 10:53 AM, PDT | Best-Horror-Movies.com | See recent Best-Horror-Movies.com news »
Whether youre a fan of the found footage subgenre or not one undeniable fact remains found footage films arent going anywhere anytime soon. With monstrous successes like The Blair Witch Project and the Paranormal Activity franchise its safe to assume that more production companies will rush to ride the wave and if all goes well we may catch some more excellent offerings. Of course we could find ourselves head over heels in uninspired efforts like The Devil Inside () but I choose to hope for the best. »
14 May 2013 1:24 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Solomon Kane is a flick that's gotten a lot of flack over the last couple of years. Is it perfect? No, but it is pretty damned good. Then again, what the hell do I know? I liked The Devil Inside. In any event, the flick is finally headed to Blu-ray and DVD.
From the Press Release
Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-twc announced today the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of Solomon Kane. The film was directed by Michael J. Bassett (“Da Vinci’s Demons” and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D) and stars James Purefoy (“The Following”), the late Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father), Rachel Hurd-Wood (Peter Pan), and Max von Sydow (The Exorcist). The character Solomon Kane was created by pulp-era writer and mind behind Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard. Solomon Kane heads to retail on July 16, 2013 for an Srp of $26.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $22.98 for the DVD. »
- Uncle Creepy
1 May 2013 12:55 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
As the recent Evil Dead reboot proved, the boundaries for how much gore isacceptable to show onscreen have been pushed so far that a film can get away with representing any sickening act of graphic violence so long as no female orgasm is depicted.
Things haven’t always been this way. Evil Dead exploited the groundwork laid by pioneers of controversy who pushed the boundaries of what society would tolerate onscreen. I present a list of Evil Dead’s forebears, the films that broke new cinematic ground, inspired riots, arrests, and moralistic outcries: ten of the most controversial movies ever made.
Chief among Cannibal Holocaust’s many sins is its introduction of the concept of “found footage” to cinema. We can thank it for indirectly inspiring such classic films as Paranormal Activity 4, The Devil Inside, and Apollo 18. The film chronicles the horrors that befall a documentary »
- Travis Earl
27 April 2013 9:01 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
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“A Haunted House,” which came to Blu-ray and DVD combo pack on April 23, 2013 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, stars Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Marlene Forte, Cedric the Entertainer, David Koechner, Dave Sheridan, Nick Swardson, Alanna Ubach, Andrew Daly, Affion Crockett, J.B. Smoove, Robin Thede and Jordenn Thompson from director Michael Tiddes and writers Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez.
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25 April 2013 10:30 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
This is the second debate of our new monthly feature, entitled ‘Thn Friday Face Off’. One Friday every month will see two Thn titans of film knowledge duke it out over a pressing issue relating to our most beloved art form. Each film fanatic will argue from a different viewpoint on a particular subject, in a bid to persuade our exceptionally attractive readers, as well as his or her colleague, they should be deemed the winner.
Of course, there are no definitive right or wrong answers. However, we would love for you to get involved by sharing your opinion, and voting for whoever you think has argued their case in a more effective way. You can do this by commenting below, tweeting us via @thncom, or commenting on our Facebook page. Before doing so, we ask that you read the opposition’s stance on the matter here.
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- Chris Wharfe
25 April 2013 10:30 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
This is the second debate of our new monthly feature, entitled ‘Thn Friday Face Off’. One Friday every month will see two Thn titans of film knowledge duke it out over a pressing issue relating to our most beloved art form. Each film fanatic will argue from a different viewpoint on a particular subject, in a bid to persuade our exceptionally attractive readers, as well as his or her colleague, they should be deemed the winner.
Of course, there are no definitive right or wrong answers. However, we would love for you to get involved by sharing your opinion, and voting for whoever you think has argued their case in a more effective way. You can do this by commenting below, tweeting us via @thncom, or commenting on our Facebook page. Before doing so, we ask that you read the opposition’s stance on the matter here.
This month we »
- Luke Ryan Baldock
23 April 2013 4:00 AM, PDT | ChannelGuideMag | See recent ChannelGuideMag news »
A Haunted House spoofs the horror genre and targets hits like Paranormal Activity, The Devil Inside, Sinister, The Possession and other “found footage” films with the story of a couple, Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins), who have just moved into their dream home. Unfortunately, they are not alone. There’s a demon present who quickly takes possession of Kisha. Malcolm, determined to keep his relationship — and more importantly, his sex life — on track, turns to a priest, a psychic and a team of modern-day ghost-busters for help. A Haunted House was cowritten by Wayans, star of In [...]
The post VOD Spotlight: A Haunted House appeared first on Channel Guide Magazine. »
- Meredith Ennis
10 April 2013 5:01 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
David Zucker Talks Scary Movie V, in theaters this weekend
Having directed Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4, comedy legend David Zucker, known for re-inventing the spoof genre with such classics as The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad and Airplane!, returns for Scary Movie V, the craziest sequel in this franchise yet.
Though he's passed the directorial reigns over to Malcolm D. Lee for this latest installment, David had a pretty heavy hand in Scary Movie V's production, co-writing the screenplay and serving as a producer. He was involved in almost every aspect of the movie, which was still being worked on when we spoke with him last week.
David Zucker called us from an Adr session, explaining that things are continually being added to the movie up until the last minute, including new scenes that parody Evil Dead, which only just came out in theaters last week. »
- MovieWeb
10 April 2013 9:51 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Despite the apex of the genre occurring forty years ago, the past few years has seen an increase in exorcism films: “The Rite,” “The Devil Inside,” and two at-bats for “The Last Exorcism” among others. And in case you forgot, last fall it was reported that “Sinister” director Scott Derrickson was heading back to the exorcism well (he wrote and directed 2005’s “The Exorcism Of Emily Rose”) with “Beware The Night” and he’s lined up a nifty cast to join Eric Bana. Co-written by Derrickson and his 'Emily Rose' partner Paul Boardman, the film will center on Bana as an Irish Catholic NYPD detective who, while working on a murder case, runs into a “renegade priest” -- to be played by Edgar Ramirez -- who is convinced that “a demonic element” is at play. “Magic Mike” and “The Newsroom” actress Olivia Munn rounds out the lead cast as Bana »
- Cain Rodriguez
8 April 2013 8:34 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Will Hollywood ever grow sick of exorcisms? From the looks of modern trends, our bet is a firm "no." In the past couple years alone we've seen movies like The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, The Devil Inside, The Possession and The Rite (not to mention countless demonic films ranging from Paranormal Activity to Sinister) and now there's a new project in the works that will keep the horror subgenre going. Deadline has learned that Summit Entertainment has tapped Terra Nova writer Barbara Marshall to write Exorcism Diaries, a film that the site says is "inspired by" Mark Opsasnick's book "The Real Story Behind The Exorcist." As of now the logline for the film is being kept a secret, however, the book description says that the tale looks at the true story that inspired the famous book and film among other tales. Strangely enough, Jay Baruchel, the comedian »
20 March 2013 8:40 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 15th to Sunday 17th March 2013...
The British action thriller Welcome to the Punch was the highest new entry at the UK box office this past weekend, but a debut haul of £460,250 was only enough to claim third place in the chart. Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful led an unchanged top two, pulling in a second weekend take of £2.61m, followed by the Steven Soderbergh-directed psychological thriller Side Effects on £759k, while Wreck-It Ralph and Parker both fell one place apiece to fourth and fifth.
Despite the inclusion of comedy stars Steve Carell and Jim Carrey in its cast, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone suffered a hugely disappointing debut, earning just £305,936 to open in sixth place. The 80s action remake Red Dawn also failed to ignite the box office, banking £255,448 to finish in eighth behind Mama, »
- Flickering Myth
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